On 6/14/06, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:18 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > As of this morning, the Fedora Core and Extras repositories have 2884 > src.rpm packages in them. Going through them, there are 191 different > licenses listed.. many of them variants of the same name (and > sometimes a mis-spelling). Some of the names are useful, and others > are odd: > > libselinux -- License: Public domain (uncopyrighted) Isn't this due to unique restrictions around NSA generated source code?
Yes. I think it comes under a special exemption for certain US Government written code.. BUT I am not sure.
> Something like > > GNU GPL version 2 or higher [see /usr/share/fedora-licenses/GPL_v2] > GNU LGPL version 2 or higher [see /usr/share/fedora-license/LGPL_v2] > GNU GPL version 2 ONLY [see /usr/share/fedora-licenses/GPL_v2] > Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0 [see > /usr/share/fedora-licenses/MPL_2.0] Do we really need to overload this License field with all that? I'd prefer:
No I do not.. I do wish to have a standard place for Licenses to help deal with searching for the LGPL Copying that Firefox should have because it is covered under the MPL and LGPL. I know i have copies of the LGPL elsewhere.. but knowing that it is in one spot would help.
GPL version 2 or higher LGPL version 2 or higher GPL version 2 MPL version 2.0 Where the syntax is: $LICENSE_SHORT_NAME version $LICENSE_VERSION or higher
I was wondering about that. Some code has things like GPL v2 ONLY and some has GPL v2 or higher and some just says GPL version 2.
> it would also help to have something more clear on the packages listed > as Distributable (all ~100 of them).. having to figure out the > restrictions on each one is a pain. Yeah, we should audit the "Distributable" packages. Got a list of those?
Canna -- License: Distributable FreeWnn -- License: Distributable adjtimex -- License: distributable aspell-en -- License: distributable aspell-nl -- License: distributable awesfx -- License: GPL/distributable bin2iso -- License: Distributable (Unknown) bitmap-fonts -- License: distributable bitstream-vera-fonts -- License: Redistributable, with restrictions blacs -- License: Freely distributable bwidget -- License: Distributable cleanfeed -- License: distributable conserver -- License: Distributable cyrus-sasl -- License: Freely Distributable dejavu-fonts -- License: Redistributable, with restrictions dhcp -- License: distributable diffstat -- License: distributable docbook-dtds -- License: Distributable docbook-simple -- License: Distributable docbook-style-dsssl -- License: Distributable docbook-style-xsl -- License: Distributable dos2unix -- License: Freely distributable epic -- License: Distributable erlang-esdl -- License: Distributable eruby -- License: distributable file -- License: distributable fonts-ISO8859-2 -- License: Freely distributable fonts-KOI8-R -- License: distributable fonts-japanese -- License: Distributable fonts-korean -- License: Distributable freeze -- License: Distributable gnuplot -- License: Redistributable, with restrictions h2ps -- License: Distributable hunky-fonts -- License: Redistributable, with restrictions jadetex -- License: Distributable jam -- License: Distributable jlint -- License: Distributable kinput2 -- License: Distributable kon2 -- License: distributable krb5 -- License: MIT, freely distributable. krbafs -- License: Freely Distributable lapack -- License: Freely distributable libjpeg -- License: distributable libtabe -- License: Redistributable libtiff -- License: distributable linuxdoc-tools -- License: Freely distributable lv -- License: distributable macutils -- License: Distributable man-pages -- License: distributable man-pages-cs -- License: Distributable man-pages-da -- License: Distributable man-pages-de -- License: Distributable man-pages-es -- License: Distributable man-pages-fr -- License: Distributable man-pages-it -- License: Distributable man-pages-ja -- License: Distributable man-pages-pl -- License: Distributable man-pages-ru -- License: Distributable mathml-fonts -- License: Distributable mgopen-fonts -- License: Redistributable, with restrictions mod_auth_pam -- License: Distributable ncftp -- License: Distributable ncompress -- License: distributable ncurses -- License: distributable nhpf -- License: Distributable ntp -- License: distributable openjade -- License: Distributable opensp -- License: Distributable paraview -- License: Distributable perl-Crypt-Blowfish -- License: Distributable perl-File-MMagic -- License: Distributable perl-Mail-Sender -- License: Distributable perl-Mail-Sendmail -- License: Distributable perl-TermReadKey -- License: Distributable perl-Time-modules -- License: Distributable ppp -- License: distributable psutils -- License: distributable pvm -- License: freely distributable python-imaging -- License: Distributable python-numarray -- License: Distributable qhull -- License: Distributable ruby-mysql -- License: Distributable scalapack -- License: Freely distributable symlinks -- License: distributable t1utils -- License: Distributable tcp_wrappers -- License: Distributable tcsh -- License: distributable tetex -- License: distributable tetex-font-kerkis -- License: Distributable tin -- License: Distributable torque -- License: Freely redistributable (See PBS_License.txt) transfig -- License: distributable ttf2pt1 -- License: Distributable udunits -- License: Freely distributable (BSD-like) ufsparse -- License: Distributable unix2dos -- License: distributable uqm-content -- License: Distributable util-linux -- License: distributable vixie-cron -- License: distributable wings -- License: Distributable xinetd -- License: Distributable (BSD-like) zasx -- License: GPL and freely distributable content zip -- License: distributable zoo -- License: Distributable
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